macmanic Posted April 12, 2006 Share Posted April 12, 2006 Yes I download mac os 10.4 for X86 and I want to install mac os x on my pc. What steps do I need to do in order to get this working correctly please help, im new to os x and I could use all the help I can get. Please help me so I can install osx on my pc PC Specs 2.4.GHZ AMD ATHLON XP 64 1GB DDR2 Ram 160GB SATA Hard Drive 16X DL +-RW DVD 16X DVD ROM 1.44MB Floppy Ausus Motherboard 240Watt PowerSupply 1.44MB Floppy Intergrated audio and network XP Home SP2 currently installed Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/14784-x86-installation-need-help/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
sam_the_killer Posted April 12, 2006 Share Posted April 12, 2006 u will need a PATA ie parallel ATA hard drive and not the SATA to install the Mac OS on ur PC(if it contains nForce chipset). if not then specify wich motherboard chipset are we discussing. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/14784-x86-installation-need-help/#findComment-94816 Share on other sites More sharing options...
macmanic Posted April 12, 2006 Author Share Posted April 12, 2006 u will need a PATA ie parallel ATA hard drive and not the SATA to install the Mac OS on ur PC(if it contains nForce chipset).if not then specify wich motherboard chipset are we discussing. it is a K8S-LA motherboard from hp and runs the sis chipset software so If I install a ATA hard drive will i be able to run xp and mac using dual boot? what else do I need to do in order to make it work Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/14784-x86-installation-need-help/#findComment-94822 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sam_the_killer Posted April 12, 2006 Share Posted April 12, 2006 u can install mac on PATA(primary partition). also let Windows XP remain on SATA. with help of chain0, u can dual boot with the Windows XP bootloader. Suggestion: Kindly refer wiki for more details. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/14784-x86-installation-need-help/#findComment-94833 Share on other sites More sharing options...
macmanic Posted April 12, 2006 Author Share Posted April 12, 2006 u can install mac on PATA(primary partition).also let Windows XP remain on SATA. with help of chain0, u can dual boot with the Windows XP bootloader. Suggestion: Kindly refer wiki for more details. so can OSX be installed on a AMD Processor? and what steps or any speical steps need to be done to install OSX on my PC Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/14784-x86-installation-need-help/#findComment-94839 Share on other sites More sharing options...
macmanic Posted April 12, 2006 Author Share Posted April 12, 2006 is their any special instructions for pre install or post after the install finished in order to get osx to install correctly on a amd machine Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/14784-x86-installation-need-help/#findComment-94910 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mebster Posted April 12, 2006 Share Posted April 12, 2006 I''m not sure what the problem with installing on a SATA drive is as i've done it on a SATA without any problems. This is a guide i made. Try and follow it. Firstly search for "Mac OS X 10.4.4/5 osx86 Patched Bootable DVD" in Pirate Bay and download it. The exact name is "Mac OS X 10.4.4/5 osx86 Patched Bootable DVD". Its a 4.35GB iso file so it's gona take a while. I got the info to download that here: http://forum.osx86project.org/index.php?showtopic=10614 But basically you don't need to view the page as long as you can find the download. Then I followed the following guide. I didn’t need to use Partition Magic as I already had unpartitioned space on my 250Gb drive. Most people don’t. So you need to know how to use Partition Magic. I never needed to so don’t still. http://forum.osx86project.org/index.php?showtopic=13014 Shortened the quote a little below: 1. Have Partition Magic (version 8 prefered) 2. have space as much as you can I allocated 60GB to OS X 20GB for win XP and 500GB for XP as well but OS X reads (read only )NTFS just fine so 500GB is readable by both OS's 3.1st run partition magic and create (or resize) as much free space as you can after your windows partition and before any extended partition (thus creating 2 primary partitions) it is Crucial that the allocated non-formated space be AFTER the windows partition make sure the space is marked as Unallocated space 4. press apply and if required reboot to make the changes. 5. when done boot normally and click start then run type in "diskpart" (no quotes) press enter 6. type "list disk" press enter 7. type "select disk 0" press enter (if you are installing to same drive as windows) 8. type "list part" press enter you will notice you do not see the empty space you made in Partition magic 9. type "create partition primary id=af" then press enter 10. type "list part" press enter now you will see the the new partition OS X will be installed on. 11. type "exit" press enter Burn the "MacOSX_10.4.4DVD patched 10.4.4.iso" with Nero choose burn image in nero from the recorder menu (I used Nero 7.0.1.4) (I tried Alcohol 120% but it said it wouldn't fit although Nero didn't care) boot off the DVD.. once you get to the part where OS X asks where you want to install you must launch the Disk Utility to erase the partition you created earlier once done OS X installs fine not on the release i have it has an AMD enabler and booting failed if you didn't customize the install and uncheck the AMD enabler. once installed enjoy. the Darwin Boot Loader defaults to OSX but if a key is pressed within 10 seconds it lets you boot to what ever drive Windows is on. That’s it basically. I got into problems during the installation part. The DVD would load but the installation wouldn’t begin. And although we got a load of here, it seem NO ONE IS WILLING TO HELP. How i feel as time goes on :angry2: Hope the info provided helps you though. All the best. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/14784-x86-installation-need-help/#findComment-94985 Share on other sites More sharing options...
macmanic Posted April 13, 2006 Author Share Posted April 13, 2006 so AcePlayer if I follow those steps It will allow me to install OSX on my AMD X86 PC. It would be nice if it would work Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/14784-x86-installation-need-help/#findComment-95102 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mebster Posted April 13, 2006 Share Posted April 13, 2006 Well I have an Intel based pc but the DVD I used had an amd patch (which you need to make sure is selected under customise). People have had many problems with installation. I had my fair share in trying to install it. I still can't get sound to work and my modem isn't recognised. But I would say give it a try. At the worst you can reinstall 10.4.1. Just try and remember the settings or save them. It worked more or less for me. And the instructions I used are the ones I wrote down. Hope that helps! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/14784-x86-installation-need-help/#findComment-95104 Share on other sites More sharing options...
macmanic Posted April 13, 2006 Author Share Posted April 13, 2006 Well I have an Intel based pc but the DVD I used had an amd patch (which you need to make sure is selected under customise). People have had many problems with installation. I had my fair share in trying to install it. I still can't get sound to work and my modem isn't recognised. But I would say give it a try. At the worst you can reinstall 10.4.1. Just try and remember the settings or save them. It worked more or less for me. And the instructions I used are the ones I wrote down. Hope that helps! yea it dose the amd enable is with the Mac OS X 10.4.4/5 osx86 Patched Bootable DVD iso correct? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/14784-x86-installation-need-help/#findComment-95149 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mebster Posted April 13, 2006 Share Posted April 13, 2006 To be honest I can't be sure as I don't have an amd pc and so haven't tried it. But it seems to come with everything you need to get it working on n amd pc. I don't really see a problem. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/14784-x86-installation-need-help/#findComment-95186 Share on other sites More sharing options...
macmanic Posted April 13, 2006 Author Share Posted April 13, 2006 To be honest I can't be sure as I don't have an amd pc and so haven't tried it. But it seems to come with everything you need to get it working on n amd pc. I don't really see a problem. Thanks for your im downloading the image right now im about 72% so ill be trying to install it and hope it works. neway the Mac OS X 10.4.4/5 osx86 Patched is the image that has all that stuff on it cause thats the one im downloading now Also my processor is AMD Athlon 64 3200+ with SSE and SSE2 so dose that mean it will run os X Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/14784-x86-installation-need-help/#findComment-95194 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mebster Posted April 13, 2006 Share Posted April 13, 2006 Ideally you need SSE3 but some how some DVD's have a patch that emulates SSE3 instructions on a SSE2 chip. I'm uncertain as to whether this DVD has the patch you need to do the translating. But this one is probably the most popular DVD so I would guess I would have. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/14784-x86-installation-need-help/#findComment-95392 Share on other sites More sharing options...
macmanic Posted April 14, 2006 Author Share Posted April 14, 2006 Well here is my update the install went fine using ATA hard drive. I dont know why OSX dosent detects SATA but atleast I got it to work and boots correctly. so yay!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/14784-x86-installation-need-help/#findComment-95737 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mebster Posted April 14, 2006 Share Posted April 14, 2006 I'm not sure what the issues with SATA drives are. I mean my OSX is installed on a SATA and well its fine. I'm glad it worked out for you. I remember I felt like you a few weeks ago when mine worked. No you just have to make all the components work also. Good luck with that. I'm not having much luck with mine. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/14784-x86-installation-need-help/#findComment-95782 Share on other sites More sharing options...
macmanic Posted April 14, 2006 Author Share Posted April 14, 2006 I'm not sure what the issues with SATA drives are. I mean my OSX is installed on a SATA and well its fine. I'm glad it worked out for you. I remember I felt like you a few weeks ago when mine worked. No you just have to make all the components work also. Good luck with that. I'm not having much luck with mine. yeah I got SATA but mac OSX dosent detect my SATA for some reason. Yea I got to make all my hardware like sound, networking and video to work. I got AC97 intergrated audio RealTek Intergrated Ethernet controller and Nvida GeforCE4 128MB AGP Card did you get any of these sound, video and ethernet working? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/14784-x86-installation-need-help/#findComment-95817 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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